Flare Blitz (move)

Flare Blitz フレアドライブ Flare Drive

The user cloaks itself in fire and charges at the foe. The user sustains serious damage, too.

Battles Type  Fire Category  Physical PP  15 (max. 24) Power  120 Accuracy  100% Priority  {{{priority}}} Makes contact Affected by Protect Not affected by Magic Coat Not affected by Snatch Affected by BrightPowder Not affected by King's Rock

Target Foe Foe Self Ally May affect anyone but the user

Availability Introduced  Generation IV Not a TM, HM, or move tutor move.

Contests Category  Smart Appeal  8 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jam  0

Super Contests Category  Smart Appeal  2 ♥♥ Earn +3 if the Pokémon that just went hit max Voltage.

Flare Blitz on Legendary Pokémon MoveDex Flare Blitz on Eevee's Movedex

Flare Blitz (Japanese: フレアドライブ Flare Drive) is a damage-dealing Fire-type move introduced in Generation IV.

Effect

Flare Blitz will thaw out the user if it is frozen, and then inflict damage on the target. Flare Blitz will cause the user to receive recoil damage equal to 1/3 of the damage done to the target. This move has a 10% chance of burning the target.

Learnset

By leveling up

Generation IV

#   Pokémon Type Level 006 Charizard Fire Flying 66 058 Growlithe Fire 48 077 Ponyta Fire 48DP 077 Ponyta Fire 46PtHGSS 078 Rapidash Fire 58DP 078 Rapidash Fire 56PtHGSS 256 Combusken Fire Fighting 54 257 Blaziken Fire Fighting 66 391 Monferno Fire Fighting 49 392 Infernape Fire Fighting 57 Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution or alternate form gets STAB from this move.

By breeding

#   Pokémon Type Father 004 Charmander Fire Charizard 037 Vulpix Fire Growlithe Ponyta, Rapidash Combusken, Blaziken Monferno, Infernape 058 Growlithe Fire Growlithe Ponyta, Rapidash Combusken, Blaziken Monferno, Infernape 155 Cyndaquil Fire Growlithe Ponyta, Rapidash Combusken, Blaziken Monferno, Infernape 240 Magby Fire Monferno, Infernape Bold indicates a Pokémon which gets STAB from this move. Italic indicates a Pokémon whose evolution gets STAB from this move. *Indicates Pokémon that can only learn the move through chain breeding.

Trivia

• Chimchar and Torchic are the only Fire-type starter Pokémon that cannot learn Flare Blitz, though their evolutions can.
• Typhlosion is the only fully evolved Fire-type starter Pokémon to not learn Flare Blitz by level up.

In other languages

• Dutch: Vlamblitz
• German: Flammenblitz
• French: Boutefeu
• Spanish: Envite Ígneo
• Italian: Fuococarica

Variations on the move Double-Edge
	Double-Edge | Volt Tackle | Brave Bird Flare Blitz | Wood Hammer

This move article is part of Project MoveDex, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on each move.